Hard Drives

Question 1

Types of Magnetic Storage Media

Answer 1

Hard Disk Drive
Floppy Disk Drives
Tape Disk Drives

Question 2

Operating system is stored on

the HDD as what?

Answer 2

Frequently accessed data. I.e. Word Documents

Question 3

PATA is what?

Answer 3

Traditional hard drive, since been replaced by SATA on new computers

Question 4

How fast a PATA can process data?

Answer 4

Max data throughput 133 MB/s

Question 5

How does a PATA Transfer data?

Answer 5

In parallel, 16 bits (2 bytes) at a time

Question 6

How dose PATA transmit data to and from motherboard?

Answer 6

Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) interface

Question 7

Describe PATA cable connectors

Answer 7

Controller (often blue), master drive (often black), and a connector in the middle of the cable for the slave drive (often grey)

Question 8

How does PATA get power?

Answer 8

4-pin molex power connector from power supply

Question 9

SATA

Answer 9

Serial ATA

Question 10

SATA is?

Answer 10

The most common hard drives used in computer today

Question 11

How does SATA get power ?

Answer 11

15 pin, 3.3 V, 5 V, and 12 V

Question 12

Which is faster PATA or SATA?

Answer 12

SATA

Question 13

SCSI(Skuzzy)

Answer 13

Small Computer Systems Interface

Question 14

Where is SCSI used?

Answer 14

Most commonly used for Servers

Question 15

Daisy Chain

Answer 15

external devices hooked up to the computer in a chain ie. scanner connected to a cd rom drive connected to the computer

Question 16

SAS

Answer 16

Serial attached SCSI

Question 17

What does SAS do?

Answer 17

Allows for more than 15 devices on single chain